Navier-Stokes/DSMC simulations of cold-gas nozzle/plume flows and flight data comparisons

33rd Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Gatsonis, Nikos A ^a   Nanson, Richard A ^a   LeBeau, Gerald J ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; FLOW FIELDS; FORECASTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NOZZLES; SPACECRAFT;

COLD-GAS THRUSTERS; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS; KINETIC SIMULATION; PRESSURE PREDICTIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; SPACECRAFT GEOMETRY; SPACECRAFT SURFACES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 84968558044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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